Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced traffic co-existence with multi-panel user equipment (UE). For example, certain embodiments may avoid excess dropping and/or cancellation. Taking inter-UE uplink (UL) prioritization as one example, whenever a network node has to accommodate higher-priority traffic on resources overlapping with ongoing and/or incoming lower-priority transmissions, certain embodiments may instruct a UE to transmit on spare antenna panel(s).
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16. An apparatus, comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive, from a user equipment, information indicating at least one or more spare panels of the user equipment and whether the user equipment supports continuing a transmission on the one or more spare panels; transmit, to the user equipment, a configuration of one or more cancellation operations to be performed upon cancellation of one or more uplink transmissions; and transmit, to the user equipment, information indicating the cancellation of the one or more uplink transmissions or overlapping resource allocations resulting in the cancellation of the one or more uplink transmissions; transmit, to the user equipment, information indicating a subset of the one or more spare panels on which the one or more cancelled uplink transmissions can be transmitted; and receive the one or more cancelled uplink transmissions via the subset of the one or more spare panels, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the apparatus, when transmitting the information indicating the subset, at least to: transmit the information indicating the subset in connection with the transmitting of the configuration, or transmit the information indicating the subset in connection with the transmitting of the information indicating the cancellation.
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